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Ngā Pātaka Kōrero - Auckland Libraries
by Auckland Libraries
Welcome to Ngā Pātaka Kōrero Auckland Libraries podcast page! Catch up on author talks, events and concerts, and hear more in-depth commentary from the curatorial team behind our taonga treasured collections and exhibitions.
Episodes
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Akinki Manukau
Akinki Manukau describes why growing food is her passion. She talks about alternative moon calendar, organic growing, how she wants to grow food that will nurture people. Akink also highlights the indigenous communal aspect of growing your own food. OH_1104_018_4_018_03 Akinki Manukau, oral...
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Jarcinda Stowers-Ama
Jarcinda Stowers-Ama talks about how difficult was to find traditional Cook Islands food in New Zealand, like specific types of taro. She recalls traditional Christmas Cook Islands’ recipes and Asian markets as a source for her ingredients. OH-1185-001-01 Jarcinda Stowers-Ama, oral history, 2014
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Sue Gee
Sue Gee remembers how enthusiastic her dad was when he had a new cooking inspiration. Explains cooking processes like soaking octopus two days in advance. She recalls having mostly Chinese cooking when her granddad was around. SA_0187_002 Sue Gee, oral history, 2020
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Teri Taukoriri
Teri Taukoriri recollects mealtimes as a family in Kiribas and describes the different dishes he ate. He also describes his father’s fishing expeditions. OH_1297_001 Teri Taukoriri, oral history, 2019
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Mukesh Bhana
Mukesh Bhana talks about his father’s takeaway restaurants, mostly Indian, Chinese and Fijian food. He explains what Fiji-Chinese cuisine is. Mukesh also talks about his first cooking experiences. OH_1095_006 Mukesh Bhana, oral history, 2013
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Leva Hoeft
Leva Hoeft talks about the market in Otara. She talks about cooking fish, potatoes and bananas. OH_1355_011_02 Leva Hoeft, oral history, 1990.
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Emora Magatogia
Emora Magatogia describes learning how to cook, the dishes her family would have for breakfast and dinner. She also comments on food prices and her husband being a good cook. OH_1467_006_02 Emora Magatogia, oral history, 2022 .
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Allan Jaffe
Allan Jaffe talks about his early childhood days. He remembers his grandmother preparing for Shabbas on Wednesdays. Allan recalls getting billies to collect milk so his grandmother could make cottage cheese. He also comments about the tradition of eating associate with traditional festivals....
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Suzanne Chan
Suzanne Chan On talks about her father cooking skills and his advice on the importance to preserve family secrets. OH_1133_003_03 Suzanne Chan On, oral history, 2014
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Introduction
Join us at our Heritage Feast, where every dish tells a story and every flavour offers a glimpse into the rich cultural mosaic of our communities.
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Mahad Yusuf (part 2)
Mahad describes challenges refugee youth face, including feeling misunderstood and navigating dual cultural identities. Shares his own experience running youth programmes. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections OH-1543-002. Photograph by Bahati, Synthia. Mahad Yusuf, 2025. Auckland Libraries...
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Dr Love Chile (part 1)
Chile Recalls the African community and his networks in 1989. Not many black people in Auckland. He talks about Phil Amos playing a pivotal role in connecting Chile to a network that later supported the integration of African refugees in the 1990s. Chile explains how the 1994 arrival of Somali…
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Dr Love Chile (part 2)
Chile talks about starting the Africa Focus magazine in 2000. Explains the purpose of the magazine and its key focuses. And he summarises the significance of the African Association of Auckland and its participation in the consultation in the resettlement strategy, the ethnic soccer strategy, and...
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Mahad Yusuf (part 1)
Mahad explains that it can be difficult to balance aspects of Somali refugee identity, New Zealand culture and Islamic faith. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections OH-1543-002. Photograph by Bahati, Synthia. Mahad Yusuf, 2025. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1966-027.
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Tina Bonsu (part 1)
Tina discusses connecting to ancestry as a Ghanaian, Cook Islander, and being raised in Aotearoa. Talks about Ghanaian food. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections OH_1543_003. Photograph by Bahati, Synthia. Tina Bonsu, 2025. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1966-035.
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Lema Shamamba (part 2)
Lema describes the differences between life in a refugee camp and life in Auckland for her and her children, highlighting the importance of education, community, and new opportunities. She mentions the differences between community life in Ranui and Congo. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections...
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Lema Shamamba (part 1)
Lema recalls her memories growing up in Congo. She also talks about becoming a refugee and understanding more about Congo political context when in NZ. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections OH_1543_005. Photograph by Bahati, Synthia. Lema Shamamba, 2025. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections...
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African Voices Intro
African Voices Intro by Auckland Libraries
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African Voices Outro
African Voices Outro by Auckland Libraries
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Tina Bonsu (part 2)
Tina talks about Miss and Mr Africa, her involvement, and what it means to the participants. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections OH_1543_003. Photograph by Bahati, Synthia. Tina Bonsu, 2025. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1966-030.
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Boubacar Coulibaly (part 2)
Boubacar talks about how the African Film Festival came about as a way to share culture. References the change of ACARI to ACOFI. He also discusses the Kaupapa of the African Film Festival and the importance of Africa through the lens of Africans. References the 10th Anniversary, challenges…
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Boubacar Coulibaly (part 1)
Boubacar Coulibaly discusses how the African community has changed since he has been in New Zealand. References growth, creating an ethnic soccer tournament in the 90’s, Somalia and Rwanda war and Zimbabwe bringing increasing immigration leading to African soccer competition. Auckland Libraries...
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August Hettig Collection
Talitali fiefia! From royal ceremonies to community and village life, the story of 20th century Tonga is vividly documented through the lens of photographer August Hettig. In this episode we explore the story of the August Hettig Collection held in Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections in...
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Conversations with my Bestie - We Read Auckland 2026: Laura Vincent
Alison is joined in the studio by the author Laura Vincent to discuss her critically acclaimed novel Hoods Landing. This book can be borrowed from the Bestie collection displays or requested from the Auckland Libraries catalogue. https://bit.ly/3TjUSv3 Other books mentioned during the interview…
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NZ children's book collections with Andrew Henry
In this episode we talk with Andrew Henry from the Heritage Collections curatorial team, about a recent acquisition of New Zealand children’s books. Totaling more than 500 items, the books have been donated to the library by passionate experts Diane & Gary Hebley, whose involvement in reading,...
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Change and Impact: The Future of Tāmaki Music Venues
The Encore! exhibition looks at ways connection happens through live music: being emotionally moved by a performance, connections between those on stage and those in the crowd, and the feeling of being connected to others in a music community. Some featured music venues in the exhibition include...
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Conversations with my Bestie - We Read Auckland 2026: K.J. Holdom
Alison is joined in the studio by the author K.J. Holdom to discuss her recently published historical novel The End and the Beginning This book can be borrowed from the Bestie collection displays or requested from the Auckland Libraries catalogue. https://bit.ly/3SfuiT2 Enjoyed this episode?…
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Auckland Voices: Tracing the history of the New Zealand accent with Dr Brook Ross
Where did the New Zealand accent come from and why does it sound the way it does today? Surprisingly, Auckland, NZ’s largest urban centre, has been notably underrepresented in research on the origins of our accent. Past work has been largely South Island and rurally focused, however newly...
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Going West: listening to the archive with James Littlewood
In this episode, we talk with James Littlewood about his work on the Going West Writers Festival archive. James reflects on the experience of working with the voices that make up the 30 years of sound and photographic records housed at Auckland Libraires Heritage Collections. This track…
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Needle on the Record - Dance Music in Auckland 1990s-2000s
Revisit Auckland in the 1990s and early 2000s, when dance music culture in Aotearoa was finding its pulse. Warehouses, nightclubs, bush parties and late-night radio built a scene that was energetic, resourceful and distinctly local. Interviewed by Emma Jean Kelly, five DJs and producers reflect…
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Salvaging a hidden history with Sue Bradford
In this episode, we talk with Sue Bradford about her work on the Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre (AUWRC) archive. Sue reflects on the experience of sorting through long‑held boxes of papers, magazines, minute books, photographs, and posters. This work was supported by the 2025 John...
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Heritage maps with Katrina Laan
In this episode we navigate heritage maps with maps librarian Katrina Laan. Katrina shares with us five of her favourite maps including the first printed map of the Pacific in 1601, a 1946 tourist map, the fabulous Thomas Wing’s map of the Kaipara Harbour 1835, early city fire insurance maps 1915...
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Hiroshige's woodblock prints & Hilda Wiseman's bookplates
In this episode we catch up with Renée Orr to discuss the recently acquired privately-published book of prints by the Japanese woodblock artist Hiroshige (1797-1858). Renée shares the back story of the book to include reference to the front ex libris bookplate of Hilda Wiseman and the…
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Te Tiriti ki Tāmaki Makaurau with Robert Eruera and Maureen Ned
In this episode we kōrero with Robert Eruera - Pou Whakarae Taonga Tuku Iho Māori and Maureen Ned - Poukokiri Whakatapoko Tapaenga about a project that, through headsets and augmented reality , we bring to life Heritage Collections and the stories related to the sites of signing of Te Tiriti o...
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Conversations with my Bestie - Pride: Love Is Love Edition
In this Pride, Love is Love edition, Alison is joined in the studio by poet and actor Dan Goodwin, to discuss the tropes and folx of three recently published queer romance novels. All three books can be borrowed from the Bestie collection displays or requested from the Auckland Libraries…
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The Don Smith Symposium - Orlando Furioso with Dr Jack Ross
Orlando Furioso was the focus for the talk delivered by Dr Jack Ross, the first of the scholars to speak at the Don Smith Symposium. In 2024 Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections gained an important collection with the gift of 183 titles collected by the late Professor Emeritus Donald Ian Brice...
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The Don Smith Symposium - Rehearsal Transpros’d with Dr Mark Houlahan
This track features Dr Mark Houlahan. In his talk he addresses the question: ‘Why should members of the Auckland Free Public Library bother with religious and political quarrels from 17th century England? Can these handsome 300-year-old books still speak to Aotearoa in 2025?’ In 2024 Auckland...
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The Don Smith Symposium - Swift's Miscellaneous with Dr Shef Rogers
In this track hear from the third speaker at the Don Smith symposium Dr Shef Rogers from the University of Otago. He spoke about “The Messy but Revealing Immediacy of Miscellanies” using Don’s set of the eleven volumes that comprise the set of miscellaneous prose and verse from Jonathan Swift and...
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Tapa Collections with Pamata Toleafoa
In this Awekura episode we talk with Pasifika Curator Pamata Toleafoa about material items which feature tapa cloth. Items include a signature greeting card to an early 1900s tapa newspaper. Pamata shares the story behind these items and the value of tapa material across Te Moana Nui a Kiwa. To...
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The Memorable Works... with Renee Orr
In this episode of the Awekura series we talk with Renée Orr, Rare Book specialist and Curatorial Services Team Leader at Auckland Council Libraries Heritage Collections. Renee shares with us a rare 17th Century book, its history and provenance, to this recently donated gift to the Heritage...
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Celebrating 20 Years!
Recorded live, this concert celebrated 20 wonderful years of music brought to you through Auckland Libraries concert series. The unique programme brought together talented musician who have participated in many years of concert performance. Lawrence Wong (piano) 5min - 20min approx. Étude in C...
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Marilyn Portman - on celebrating music in the library
Join Marilyn Portman in conversation with Sue Berman as they discuss the celebrated history of musical concerts at the City Central Library. In this interview Marilyn shares the foundation story behind what became a regular concert series, its many iterations and various talents, and remanences…
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The Kotuku Quintet - Mozart to Matariki
On Thursday 26 June 2025, Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library presented The Kotuku Quintet in a special concert: From Mozart to Matariki The programme was based on a Mozart piano concerto and drew on inspiration from the celebration of Matariki in a brand new work by pianist and composer...
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Otherhood: a conversation with Lil O’Brien and Paula Morris
The Tāmaki Untold series celebrates the taonga, stories and creativity of Auckland. In this episode listen in to the conversation held at Nga Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Central Library on Otherhood: Conversation about being childless, childfree and child-adjacent with guest writers...
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We Read Auckland 2025: Michael Bennett - Carved in Blood
Alison is joined in the studio by author Michael Bennett, to discuss his novel Carved in Blood, the third instalment in the gripping Hana Westerman series. Carved in Blood is published by Simon & Schuster and can be borrowed from Bestie collection displays in all Auckland Council libraries or...
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We Read Auckland 2025: Diana Wichtel: Unreel
Alison is joined in the studio by author Diana Wichtel, to discuss her memoir Unreel: A life in review, published by Penguin. Diana is an award-winning reviewer and bestselling author of Driving to Treblinka. Unreel is a brilliantly funny, achingly nostalgic memoir of a life spent watching and...
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Ka mua ka muri: Moving forward with Te Tiriti o Waitangi
On Saturday 28 June in celebration of Matariki and as part of our Tāmaki Untold series, Auckland Libraries hosted a conversation between Roimata Smail, author of ‘Understanding Te Tiriti’ and Avril Bell, author of ‘Becoming Tangata Tiriti’. The two authors discussed the meaning of Te Tiriti and…
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Tania Mace: Lost Neighbourhoods of Central Auckland
In this track Sue Berman talks with Tania Mace about her research into early inner city Auckland neighbourhoods. Tania talks about her history research interests, her approach to documentary heritage material, her discoveries and the opportunities for research still to come. Tania's research was...
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Indigenous SciFi and Aotearoa Futurism: Dr. Gina Cole & Dan Taipua
Explore space, time, and technology in science fiction through indigenous lenses with award-winning author Dr Gina Cole (Black Ice Matter; Na Viro) and writer, critic and producer, Dan Taipua. Dr. Gina Cole is an award-winning author of Fijian, Scottish and Welsh descent. Her collection Black Ice...
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Lost in time: The art of Mike Hinge
In this bonus track join host Sue Berman as she talks with Florette Cardon, Senior Library Research Assistant and exhibition curator researcher. Florette tells the story of how she came to dig deep into the world of Science Fiction art and design, leading her to discover and celebrate the work of...
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